Processing potatoes before planting is a crucial step in the preparation of seed material. Proper processing - the key to a good harvest. And the best way to combat plant diseases and insect pests is prevention.
As a presowing protection before germinating seeds, you can soak or spray the tubers with the help of folk remedies. It helps to increase germination. From pests tubers need to be pickled with special preparations.
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What to handle before planting
What and how to process potatoes is up to you. And from the right choice of method and composition for processing depends on the harvest.
Against the Colorado potato beetle
- put onion peel and ash in the hole
- planted in the middle of the potato plants that scare the beetle: garlic, beets, coriander, beans, calendula
- synthetic poison (Prestige drug)
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- Calendula scares the Colorado potato beetle from potatoes
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- Onion peel and ash put in the hole before planting
To increase yields
It speeds up seedlings, and improves yields on average. by 15%.
From diseases
- Cultivate the land from phytophthora solution Baikal M-1
- Process tubers with a solution copper sulphate or drug Fitosporin M.
Growth stimulator after germination
Epin - Immune stimulant for potatoes. Helps survive the plant freeze and stimulates intensive growth and branch formation, which increases productivity by 50%.
Poteytin - a proven stimulant that accelerates the germination rate for a week, strengthens the resistance of the stems to damage and increases the yield by 20%.
Bioglobin - Stimulator of a new generation. Made on the basis of mammalian placenta and causes a short-term doubling of the rate of cell growth. Using the drug according to the instructions, the yield is doubled.
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- Epin
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- Poteytin
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- Bioglobin
Conventional presowing treatment
From wireworm
Against a wireworm, seed potatoes are processed by the following substances:
- Taboo. It helps to protect from pests to the formation of the first 4 leaves.
- Prestige. Can be used on all varieties of potatoes, except for early varieties.
From aphids
When treating tubers with a preparation Commander, the potato is protected not only from aphids, but also from the wireworm and the Colorado potato beetle.
Gardening potatoes
In order to speed up the vegetation process of the plant, so that the plant grows healthy and with good immunity, in order to protect the plant from many diseases, seed potatoes need to be subjected to a gardening process. Sunlight getting on the skin of tubers "Includes" the process of photosynthesis of a plant, thereby stimulating its growth.
The process is autumn and spring. In the autumn laid out seed potatoes in good dry weather in a sunny place. From time to time, turn over the tubers as they are planted.
In the spring potatoes are also laid out in a well-lit place, and also turn it over as it stains in green. But you need to monitor the temperature regime (+10 +12 degrees). Sometimes, when the weather permits, they take it outside, tempering the planting material in this way.
How to process potato seeds before planting
In order to get good material for planting potatoes, which does not carry hereditary diseases, you need take the seeds (not tubers!) from fruits formed in the autumn on a potato plant, rinse them and dry.
In the spring process these seeds with microelements, and plant on seedlings. It should be borne in mind that picking such a seedling does not tolerate very well. When harvesting from such plants, you need to choose the best specimens in form and quality, regardless of size.
Substances to apply to seed potatoes
Potassium permanganate
A solution of manganese acid potassium is used to process potatoes. before landing. On one bucket of water stir one gram of potassium permanganate. Prepared for planting tubers put in the solution for 40 minutes.
Copper sulfate
Copper sulphate solution is used for the same purposes as potassium permanganate. On one bucket of water you need to put 10 grams of vitriol and the same amount of zinc sulfate.
Phytosporin
Processing of tubers before planting is carried out by Fitosporin M from phytophthora. In one liter of water add 60 milliliters of liquid means of Fitosporin M.
Aktara
He applied either by spraying the plant or by adding to the ground. On a bucket of water you need to dilute 2 grams of aktar. Once sprinkle the plants before flowering, the second time after digging potatoes.
Ammonia
For processing tool and spraying bushes from nematode apply a 10% solution of ammonia in the amount of 10 milliliters per bucket of water.
Boric acid
When appearing scab the bed is treated with a solution of boric acid. In a bucket of water diluted 6 grams. This amount must be poured into 10 square meters of soil.
Maksim
The drug is well suited for preplant processing potato tubers. After processing the planting material, it forms a protective "shell" through which diseases such as fusarium, rot, fomoz do not penetrate. For 1 liter of water dilute 40 ml of the drug and spray the tubers.
Prestige
Namely: destroys virtually all potato pests. The drug is endowed with fungicidal properties. Namely: it prevents the penetration into the plant of almost all diseases.
To process the planting material with this drug, you need to prepare a solution. 100 ml of the drug is added to 1 liter of water. Tubers are sprayed with this solution, and after about a couple of hours, when they dry, you can begin planting in the ground.
Wood ash
The huge scope makes ashes indispensable in your garden. Potatoes are soaked in a solution of wood ash (about 100 grams per bucket) before landing.
After bathing the seed potatoes in a solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulfate, it is sprinkled with ashes. It is placed in a place for planting potatoes at the rate of 100 grams per square meter.
Ash not only plays the role of potash fertilizer and disinfects seed and earth, but also scares off such pests as the leaf beetle.
Soaking potatoes before planting
Farmers with experience soak potato tubers before planting for two days in a special solution that feeds seed material.
It is said that plant germination improves, the rate of tuber formation increases, and the overall potato yield increases by 15 percent.
It is very simple to make a solution for soaking with your own hands. In a bucket of water you need to dissolve 40 grams nitrogen fertilizerthen as much superphosphate and the same amount potassium salt. For soaking 50 kilograms of potato tubers, this should be enough.
To grow a healthy, powerful and prolific potato plant, the possibility of disease and pest damage to potatoes must be avoided.
Careful soil preparation, planting material selection and potato processing before planting make it much easier. And knowing how to do it all right, you can grow a crop of potatoes, which all neighbors will envy.
Comrades, bring clarity.
It is written that for the treatment using ammonia in a concentration of 10% or 10 ml per 10 liters of water. But the math says that this is only a 1% solution.How really? approximately also (not here) they write that the tubers are soaked in potassium permanganate with a 1% concentration or 1 gram per 10 l. water, but it's 0.1% solution.
At 1 g per liter (1% pp) it seems to be cool. Fire everything.
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